My colleagues at the Rural Vitality Lab, Catharine Biddle, Mark Tappan, and I have just completed a five year collaborative project on trauma-responsive equitable education in two under-resourced elementary schools in rural Maine. In partnership with local nonprofit Cobscook Institute our mission was to strengthen schools and their surrounding communities with a trauma- and equity-informed approach designed to fortify rural environments and lead to healthier and more successful outcomes for all students. My contribution, in collaboration with a brilliant research-practice partnership team, was to ensure student expertise and voice were integrated in all aspects of the project.
Our book Trauma-Responsive Schooling: Centering Student Voice and Healing is now available. Check out a few recent articles below.
Brown, L.M., Biddle, C., & Tappan, M. (2022). Student-Led SEL. Educational Leadership, 80(3). https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/student-led-sel
Biddle, C., Brown, L.M. & Tappan, M. (2022). Letting student voice lead the way. Educational Leadership, 79(9). https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/letting-student-voice-lead-the-way
Biddle, C., Tappan, M., & Brown, L.M. (April 25, 2022). Schools Should Make Students’ Wishes Come True. Here’s How. Education Week. Retrieved from: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-schools-should-make-students-wishes-come-true-heres-how/2022/04
Brown, L.M. & Flaumenhaft, J. (2019). Student-Empowered Curricular Change as Trauma Informed Practice. Phi Delta Kappan, 100(6): 13-19.